The Indoor Farmer: Foods You Can Grow Without A Garden
Growing your own food is a key part of living an ecologically sustainable lifestyle, and Britain's allotment societies have never been busier. But if you don't have a garden or access to an allotment, is [...]
Surprisingly Sustainable: Three New Materials You’d Never Guess Were Green
After centuries of using the earth's resources as if they were infinite, we are now as a species facing a difficult problem. How do we maintain our technologically-advanced lifestyles without draining the world of its [...]
Green Futures: Eco Friendly Architecture Grows Up
Modern buildings have a bad reputation, and it's easy to see why. From the brutalist concrete shells of the 1960s to the materialist excess of the 1980s, right up to the wave of cheap, [...]
Straw Bale House Build: The Bricks of the Future?
When most of us hear the idea of a house made of straw, the first thing that comes to mind is the tale of the Three Little Pigs. But with straw now being recognised as [...]
The Green Clean: Cleaning Products and Your Eco-Friendly Home
Running an environmentally conscious home means considering every aspect of your lifestyle. From energy usage to food waste, there are myriad ways to cut your family's energy footprint and soften your impact on the environment, [...]
Creating a Low Carbon Home | So what can you do to contribute to the global effort?
With the world's largest countries continuing to rely on burning hydrocarbon fuels, cutting carbon emissions has never been more important. So what can you do to contribute to the global effort? Today we're looking at [...]
Guide: How To Choose Sustainable Woods for the Home
Why is Deforestation an Issue? Forests are useful to life on earth, including humans, in a number of ways. Perhaps the most important of these is in the way in which they absorb carbon [...]
Traditional Handmade vs Mass Produced: An Honest Summary
The great philosopher Immanuel Kant once said that “the hand is the window onto the mind”, when praising the uniqueness of human craftsmanship. The ability to fashion beautiful objects by hand, whether they be utilitarian, [...]
What are Kitchen Work Triangles?
What do triangles and kitchens have in common? This might seem like a somewhat obscure question but it actually underlies the basis of kitchen design and ergonomics. Despite how much quality granite or marble [...]
Simple ways to make your home more efficient and save money each year
Do you want to save money and energy? Are you concerned about environmental protection and the efficient energy management of your home? If you are thinking how to provide comfort to your family while [...]
10 reasons why you should switch to natural paints and why should you care?
They do not contain chlorinated hydrocarbons or other toxic non-degradable substances. They don’t release hazardous artificial solvents or formaldehyde They do not release harmful gases after drying. Direct contact with organisms is harmless. They have [...]
Customer Profiles: Jon Fitzgerald & His Sugar Glider Enclosure. Build to Finish
The Custom Made Sugar Glider Enclosure I have kept sugar gliders for almost a year and gradually increased my small colony from two to four gliders. The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous arboreal, [...]
Green infrastructure – Using a Green Roof for economic benefits, savings and wellbeing.
A beneficial way of helping our cities to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change is utilising green space. Green roofs are and will be an increasingly important technology. The ecosystems services that [...]
Innovative and Effective Green Solutions in Revamping Your Home
We’re already almost a month into the new year, so how about adding a touch of green and making some eco friendly changes inside your home to kickstart the New Year? Imagine yourself living another 365 [...]
4 Toughest Challenges People Faced in Converting to an Eco Friendly Lifestyle
The idea of starting to live an eco-friendly lifestyle often hits us during the month of April, thanks to Earth Day. But then again, with the kind of environment we have now, we need to figure [...]
What is Passive house? (Passivhaus) – We give you the latest low down on this ultra efficient energy contruction.
This construction standard was “rediscovered” in the early 90s by the German physicist Wolfgang Feist, who worked, studied and built in 1991 in the city of Darmstadt, southwest of Frankfurt, the first modern Passive House. [...]
10 Life Hacks You Should Not Miss When Painting Your House
You have probably read a couple of our house painting ideas and some DIY stuff in here and guess what? Today, we are taking things up to a higher level. We believe that homemakers of [...]
7 Simple ways to make your small rooms look and feel bigger
We've all got rooms that feel a little too small, regardless of what size they actually are. It's far too easy to have a badly arranged, cluttered and mis-matched room, which leads to the visual [...]
Natural Wall Paint is the better option. Fact. Do you know what’s currently leeching out your walls?
In this day and age there is no excuse for not paying attention to what is in the products we not only consume, but actually use in our environments. We all hear about bad things [...]
5 Low effort, free & quick ways to become a little more eco friendly & sustainable
I get it, you hear it all the time and we're all bad. Yes yes yes. I'm as bad as the next guy so I'm writing this almost as a note to myself.There really are [...]
Backyard Fire Pit – Stay warm and stay out longer in the long summer evenings!
Nothing cozies up a backyard like a roaring fire on those chilly spring evenings. There are pre-built fire pits that work just beautifully, but building your own is easy and affordable and will give you [...]
Soothe your Space with the Amazing Colours of Natural & Organic Paints
Bring some peace and harmony into your home with all-natural paints that borrow their colour palette from nature. Soft colours that mimic nature such as pale greens, blues and browns can calm and relax people in [...]
Top Tips: Adding a trellis to your garden? Making your own? Top Tips!
Create a lovely shaded resting spot or a leafy green wall for your garden by adding a trellis or arbor to your outdoor space. You can either purchase ready-made lattice for this project or build [...]
Making Eco Recycled & Upcycled Wind Chimes for your garden
Is your garden missing a little something? Perhaps it’s the soothing tinkle of wind chimes! Don’t worry if you’ve not yet become the proud owner of a set—they can easily be made right at home [...]
How to make a simple eco friendly greenhouse for your garden this Spring
It’s that time of year to start sprouting seeds! If you’re in an area that may still experience a cold snap, it would be best to build a small greenhouse that will protect your seedlings [...]
